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...teetotaling journalist who has not taken a week's vacation in the four years since he took over the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000). Francis was chosen for the job by Schick Millionaire Patrick Frawley Jr., who bought the then-progressive paper at the urging of conservative Jesuit Gadfly Daniel Lyons to give it a more traditional tone. A onetime Methodist lay preacher who became a Catholic in 1945, Francis has socially liberal credentials as a longtime union supporter and early civil rights advocate...
...Father Kenneth Baker, 44, is an energetically conservative Jesuit educator who has edited the monthly Homiletic and Pastoral Review (circ. 17,000) since 1971. Like Francis, Baker won his editorial slot through the good offices of fellow Jesuit Dan Lyons, who found backers to buy the ailing magazine. Baker has kept the Homiletic open to a broader range of viewpoints than the Register. But Baker too believes that the bishops have largely abandoned their magisterium-their teaching office...
Then rumors began appearing that Daniélou had died in the apartment of a young blonde married woman named Santoni, who reportedly works in a cabaret. The rumors proved to be true. It also turned out that the French Catholic heirarchy and French Jesuit headquarters had tried to hush up the circumstances surrounding Daniélou's death, claiming he had died outside the house of "friends." The satirical anticlerical weekly Le Canard Enchainé exposed the event in a story full of damning innuendoes. Two weeks ago, Le Monde, France's most prestigious newspaper, confirmed that...
...long been a clerical bohemian who traveled in unusual circles. Even after he turned theologically conservative a few years before becoming a cardinal in 1969, he remained a political and social progressive, and something of a chaplain to the demimonde. The cardinal was "profoundly compassionate," explained Fellow Jesuit Xavier Tilliette. If he also "ran risks to the point of imprudence," he was only following "the example of the Divine Master, [who] ate and drank as a friend of publicans and sinners...
...changed a horse thief's sentence from beheading to exile, since "the nation was at peace and horse theft was therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of war." His dealings with the West were open and generous, yet appropriately wary. He allowed selected Jesuits to preach their faith in China and introduce scientific and technical learning. But when the Pope sent a sort of watchdog emissary to keep an eye on his Jesuit scholars, K'ang-hsi threw...